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El Triunfo Milagroso de la Omnipotencia, en la Vida, Martyrios, y Milagros de la Esclarecida Virgen, e Invicta Prothomartyr de las Mugeres, Santa Tecla Escrivele, y le dedica a la misma Santa el Padre Iayme Vilar de la Compañia de Iesus

by: Vilar, Iayme (Vilar, Jaime)

Publication date: 1697

Topics: Thecla, Saint -- Biography -- Early works to 1800, Christian women saints -- Early works to 1800, Christian saints -- Early works to 1800

Publisher: Barcelona : Figuero

Collection: womenofthebook; Johns_Hopkins_University; americana

Contributor: The Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries

Language: Spanish

Item Size: 787.7M

4to. pp. (16), 248. With woodcut portrait on title page. 18th C calf. First edition. Thecla was an early Christian martyr, a devoted follower of Paul who left her fiancée to follow the apostle to Antioch. In fending off the advances of a would-be rapist there, she committed assault and was sentenced to be eaten by wild beasts. Highly venerated in the Eastern Church as an ‘apostle’ in her own right, and lauded as an exemplary virgin and martyr by the Church Fathers, Thecla was decidedly less popular in the Early Modern Period. She was almost unknown outside of Spain, where she was considered the patron saint of Tarragona